Crime & Punishment

I don't know why anyone bothers including "risk" in suicide ganking discussions. Most who suicide gank have figured out a way to do it profitably, and the ones who don't do it for profit don't care what the risks are. It's a red herring argument. Sure, the risk is non-zero, but it's also absurdist to claim there is equal risk. It simply doesn't factor into the finally blow enough to be a meaningful point, especially since being a ganker is obviously more than just about numbers and profit.
Also, if we're going to use isk to calculate risk, then ANY activity's risk approaches zero the exponentially richer you get.
I find suicide ganking hilarious and find all gameplay styles valid if the rules allow. But please, don't conflate risk with chance.

I love ganking, its my way of making isk. I have made meany billions of isk doing it.

To this change i say: Thank you CCP!

this for a few reasons:

1. More ppl are going to mine so ship prices will go down (hopefully).

2. More ppl will feel save so more high value targets.

So more profit!

Oow and to those crying about this i say you guys where getting out of control and giving gankers a bad name HTFU!

Every gank i have done i have lost the ship and the modules i have never unfitted them, i have never warped away and i have never ganked while under GCC so stop crying and adapt.

As a recently-recovering carebear, I find myself somewhat perplexed - OK, Ganking is mostly silly and largely pointless, but so what? I've had my mining alt ganked a couple times - It's not a particularly traumatic event. Mostly, it's a blip on the profit spreadsheet.*

Of course, I don't fly what I can't afford to lose, so maybe that's the problem with folks - They forget that mining is suposed to be a profit-generating enterprise, and fly ships much too expensive for the state of their wallet. If I were sitting on a larger wallet, I might fly larger hulls, but I make plenty enough profit now, with my easily-replacable hulls. The mining is only to top off my wallet or supply materials, anyway - it's there to feed my main.

Anyway, the frequency of ganking is hugely exagerated - by both sides. Gankers gank away as fast as they can, but even at their most active, only manage to infest a small number of systems, and impact a tiny fraction of the miners. Miners grind away, and largely are left alone, no matter how tempting a target their hulls are. It's really a side-show. Entertaining, sure, but it's not even remotely a center-ring event.



*Unless done in a particularly sloppy manner, in which case it's an opportunity to mock the hell out of someone.

hey Sudden, use another alt to draw Concord into the other belt so you can go after the prey in the belt you want with your main.
unless Concord decides to make your system like Tama and 175 of their ships humping the Tama/Nourvukaiken gate because of all those Caldari and Gallente FW war heroes. lol